Book Summary: Sweatshop

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SweatShop Summary Joseph Stallin said, “The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is statistic.” When it comes to one man it is sad and depressing, but when it comes to millions of people, it’s hard to not forget. Such as 9/11 attack, and the France attack that happen 11/13/15. A lot of people have died at a sweatshop in New York in the 20th century. Many good people have been in bad things at the wrong times. A sweatshop was burned down and killed many workers in the 1900’s. Workers were just doing there job and randomly at 4:45, a fire suddenly broke out on the eighth floor of the building. No one knew what caused the fire, but many think it was a spark from a machine. A man named Joseph Zito was an elevator operator. He

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